Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has signaled that he does not plan on declaring the disastrous Sumatra flooding a…
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December 1, 2025
Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded a 0.17 percent (month-to-month) inflation in November 2025. Meanwhile, the…
Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Yuliot Tanjung has responded to growing public scrutiny over…
Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian acknowledges that the government is not yet ready to deal with large-scale…
Aida Ulim, Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) commemorated the 64th anniversary of the West Papuan independence Political…
Jakarta – The North Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) believes the flash floods that have hit several areas…
Kurniawan Arif Maspul – A pregnant woman's preventable death after being refused treatment exposes the deadly gap between health coverage and real…
Nathanael Sumaktoyo – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto surprised many on 11 June 2025 when he mentioned in a speech at the Indo Defence Expo…
Alif Ilham Fajriadi, Jakarta – Erma Yulihastin, a climate and atmosphere researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN),…
Johnny Johan Sompotan, Jakarta – Flash floods and landslides that battered the island of Sumatra over the past week have wiped out…
Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – The Indonesian manufacturing sector has recorded an expanded Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) in November 2025…
Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Indonesia reported Monday that its October trade surplus reached $2.39 billion, but this was only nearly half of…
Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – Three Indonesian provinces in the region of Sumatra have not fully recovered after being hit by flash floods and…
Jakarta – Amid the doom and gloom characterizing recent global events, rare, positive, albeit pungent, news has bloomed from a forest in West…
November 30, 2025
Agencies, Jakarta – The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in Sumatra has risen to 442, official data on a government…
This year is the 64th anniversary of the first official flying of the Morning Star flag in 1961, in the then Dutch colony of Netherlands New…
Tempo.co, Jakarta – Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences for the massive flood disaster in the northern region of…
Agencies, Jakarta – The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Southeast Asia climbed past 400 on Saturday as clean-up and search-…
Kristo Langker, Kiwirok, West Papua – On September 25, 2025, Lamek Taplo, the guerilla leader of a wing of the West Papua National Liberation Army…
November 29, 2025
Dhaka – The 50th anniversary of Timor-Leste's Proclamation of Independence has been celebrated in Dhaka highlighting the significance of the…
Antara, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Perry Warjiyo has disclosed the direction of the monetary policy in 2026: to maintain a balance…
Antara, Jakarta – Massive floods and landslides across western Indonesia have killed more than 100 people, displaced tens of thousands, crippled…
Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has promised to double the budget for school rehabilitation in 2026 after…
Ranny Supusepa, Asrul Rizal – The North Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that the ecological disaster in…
Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – The Chair of the House Commission VIII (DPR), Marwan Dasopang, suspects that the recent flooding in several areas…
Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Aceh Governor Muzakir Manaf has declared a state of emergency due to floods and landslides in several regions of Aceh…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claims that the government has shown tangible results in the first year of his…
Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – The floods and landslides wreaking havoc in Aceh, West Sumatra, and North Sumatra are evidence that relying on…
November 28, 2025
Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the…
Agnes Valentina Christa, Tangerang – East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa said on Friday that the province has already achieved full food…
Mastin Annisa and Jeremy J Kingsley – The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Rail (KCJB), known as Whoosh, is Southeast Asia's first-ever bullet train.…
Adil Al Hasan, Jakarta – Indonesia's upstream textile industry is experiencing a steep downturn, with the Association of Indonesian Fiber and…
Rizal Harahap and Theresia Sufa, Pekanbaru – Amid relentless deforestation and rising human – elephant conflict, two more Sumatran elephant calves…
Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Aceh Barat Regency recorded that a total of 3,866 people from 2,…
Jakarta – Last year, the policy of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, ending the ban on the lobster larvae export, was criticized due…
Iwan Arifianto, Semarang – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) is urging the police to release two activists from Semarang, Adetya…
Responding to the arbitrary arrest of two activists in Semarang, Adetya Pramandira and Fathul Munif, Amnesty International Indonesia's Executive…
Akmalal Hamdhi, Jakarta – Hopes for a policy reversal on imported second-hand clothing have been shut down after Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said he views strict teachers as playing a constructive role in shaping student…
Ali MC, East Timor – It is a quiet afternoon in Lospalos. Just the clucking of chickens, the grunt of a pig and in the distance, a transistor…
As Indonesia marked its 80th birthday with much fanfare, pomp and ceremony, it has been clear that the country sits at an uncomfortable crossroads…
Sahat Simatupang, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) in North Sumatra has accused seven companies of playing a significant…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto attended the National Teacher's Day commemoration event at the Indonesia Arena,…
Jakarta – Flooding and landslides across Sumatra have killed at least 84 people this week and dozens more are missing, rescue officials said…
Felix Martua, Jakarta – Puput Setia Susanti, the senior program officer in the Cultural Division at The Japan Foundation Jakarta, recalled an…
Antara, Jakarta – Former President Joko Widodo or Jokowi denied allegations that he inaugurated the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP)…
Keith Anthony Fabro – In the cool highlands of Indonesia's Flores Island, where mist settles over rice fields and coffee gardens, the Manggarai…
Maria Gabrielle, Jakarta – Concerns over coastal defenses in Jakarta have intensified after a video showing seawater seeping through a seawall in…
Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto claimed that the allocation for the education budget receives the largest portion in the…
Anna O'Connor – Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has doubled down on processing liquified natural gas (LNG) from the Greater Sunrise field in…




